[22530005 / 04835070 / 04804023] Cognitive Reasoning | Yixin Zhu

Upper-division and Graduate-level, cross-listed at PKU and THU:
- Offered by Institute for AI and Yuanpei College (listed as 22530005/04835070, Cognitive Reasoning)
  - Junior or senior Tong class students, Yuanpei College, PKU
  - Junior or senior Tong class students, Department of Automation, THU (cross-listed)
  - Junior or senior students, School of EECS, PKU
- Offered by School of Intelligence Science and Technology (listed as 04804023, Physical and Social Commonsense Reasoning)
  - First-year graduate students, School of Intelligence Science and Technology and Institute of AI, PKU
  - Selective first-year Ph.D. students, THU (cross-listed, approved case by case)
Description: Understand the fundamental concepts of commonsense reasoning, being able to know and solve some challenging AI problems on commonsense reasoning. It provides an in-depth introduction to the knowledge related to visual commonsense reasoning with a focus on both theories and computational methods.
Location: Peking University Main Campus
- 22530005/04804023: Monday 15:10-18:00 @ 三教206;
- 04835070: Every other Tuesday 13:00-14:50 and every Thursday 15:10-17:00 @ 理教409.
Credits: 3

Instructor: Yixin Zhu ([email protected]).
25 Fall TAs:
- Zimo He ([email protected])
- Yuyang Li ([email protected])
- Xinyi Yang ([email protected])
Office Hours: Every Tuesday 20:00-21:00 (except holidays) @ 王克桢楼1904/1905

Yixin Zhu and Song-Chun Zhu, Cognitive Models for Visual Commonsense, Springer, ISBN: 9783031981067. PDF provided for this course only.
Elizabeth S. Spelke, What Babies Know, Volume 1, Core Knowledge and Composition, Oxford Series in Cognitive Development, ISBN: 9780190618247
Michael Tomasello, The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans, MIT Press, ISBN: 9780262047005
Thomas L. Griffiths, Nick Chater and Joshua Tenenbaum, Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind, MIT Press, ISBN: 9780262049412
Useful Computing Resources.
Oxford Library of Psychology.

This course is made possible by a group of collaborators and students

my advisors,

my long-term collaborators,

the most awesome peers in the world (in alphabetical order),

and the smartest students in the world (in alphabetical order), serving as TAs.